The Graphic Canon, Vol. 2

“As with the previous volume, this collection has a wide array of applications for cultural scholars and historians (art and otherwise), but proves most powerful in its tear-inducing panoply of graphic talents and styles working in the comics medium.” —Jesse Karp, Booklist

“By turns playful and beautiful, this visual treatment is more than entertainment; it offers a new perspective for understanding these enduring works [of the nineteenth century].” —Reader’s Digest

“The tome is the best thing in literary comics since Kate Beaton’s Hark! A Vagrant and a fine complement to the best graphic nonfiction of the past few years.” —Maria Popova, Brain Pickings

“Russ Kick, the man who’s curating this tripartite series, must be some saint of artist-wrangling abilities, some theme-embodying savant … Dame Darcy’s 16 pages of excerpts from Alice in Wonderland in this book might be worth the price of ownership all by itself.” —Austin Chronicle

“The majority of the work featured in Volume 2 of The Graphic Canon exceeds expectations for how it absorbs familiar texts and shapes new lives into them, reminding readers how words read in a book can color so much of life that exists far beyond the page.” —Imprint

“This prodigious and astounding collection of literary adaptations is staggering in its ambition, but even more so in its execution and realization.” —The Miami Herald

“The Graphic Canon continues to be an enrapturing experience. It has already sparked a sensation, and anyone who’s read the first two volumes most likely can’t wait for the third, currently set to come out this March. If all this effort renews interest in the classics, then more power to it. Still, The Graphic Canon, Vol. 2 has plenty to offer those without lit degrees: a vibrant, feverish dance through some of the best parts of our artistic history … with an open invitation to join.” —Paste 

“If you’d like to add a little class to your comic collection, look no further: The Graphic Canon has what you need. A gorgeous, three-volume collection from Seven Stories Press and Russ Kick (with the final volume being released this coming April), The Graphic Canon is basically all of the greatest literature in the history of the world, as seen through the eyes of the greatest comic artists in the world. If you think that sounds pretty epically amazing, you would not be wrong.” —DorkShelf